First Wonder Woman got a makeover, and now the Man of Steel is debuting a new look of his own.

The redrawing will appear in“Superman: Earth One," a new graphic novel retelling of the origin of the super hero which DC Comics says is “Superman for the 21st century."

Does the modern Superman look a little familiar to you Twi-hards? As the New York Post points out, he bears “more of a resemblance to Robert Pattinsonfrom the ‘Twilight’ movies thanChristopher Reeve from the Superman films.”

The new Superman still has the inky black hair and buff bod – six pack and all – but features more of a brooding look than the super hero's past clean-cut appearance.

The book is written by J. Michael Straczynski, known for writing Superman, Wonder Woman and Babylon 5 and drawn by artist Shane Davis who has previously worked on Green Lantern and the Superman/Batman series.

The new graphic novel series does not replace the original Superman comics, but is merely a reinterpretation of his younger years. The book goes on sale next Tuesday.

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Wow. The absolute *WORST* thing you can do for this book is compare it to Twilight. Comic fans will see that and think 'clearly that's not for me' and Twilight fans will read it and think 'this book isn't what I thought it was going to be' and not buy any more.

Having read the book in the form of a preview copy; I find the comparison completely arbitrary and groundless. The article was clearly written by people who don't understand the character, the book, or the industry.

If you're interested in Superman and a modern re-envisioning of the character, or are a fan of Straczynski, pick up this book. If you want teen angst and melodrama then pick up Twilight. They are different things.

I honestly like the new look...I never really was a huge fan of superman because of the clean-cut innocent look that he had. Sure, he is the biggest superhero, but I thought the look needed a change. This new look for him will definitely draw new attention to more people. I showed a lot of my friends this new look and they were really intrigued by it. The world is changing rapidly and it's not like Superman's character has changed, but his looks changed for today's world...and it's getting more appealing to the younger crowd. Sorry fans it was bound to happen...at least he looks like a badass lol.

Because this is just a side story, I can bring myself to tolerate it. If they had truly decided to change superman into another generic emo fool, I would absolutely refuse to have anything to do with DC. Nothing wrong with "updating" a character, but to corrupt one of the few characters that's still good? Bad buisiness.

How about making Batman wear white costume and make him smile everytime, and his new hideout would be on top of a big three colored with different colors of the rainbow, sounds good huh? WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Even icons sometimes need to be refreshed. It's a marketting move to sell product. Remember when Doomsday killed the Boy Scout? Sales went through the roof. Anybody remember the outcry when Craig became James Bond. He did a great job but Sean Connery still rules.

The Collected Editions comics review site will host a live discussion of the Superman: Earth One graphic novel Wednesday night at 8 pm EST, after everyone's had a chance to pick up a copy. Drop by at the link below - we might even clarify "Earth One" and Earth-1 for you. :)

SUPERMAN IS THE SON OF A NEPHILIM, MIGHTY ONES WHO WERE OF OLD, MEN OF FAME
THIS IS THE TRUTH....THE SON OF A WICKED ANGEL...SUPERMAN IS DEAD BUT HIS FATHER
IS NOT AND NOW HE WANTS HIS SON TO LOOK LIKE HIM....I SAID IT AND IT IS THE TRUTH...
JUST LOOK AT HIM, AND ASK YOURSELF WHY WOULD SOMEONE MAKE HIM LOOK SO
DARK OK, THIS IS REAL.....I AM JUST TELLING THE TRUTH....

Really? Does DC know that people older than 12 still read comics? I'm sorry but making the big blue boyscout look like a little wimp with glowing red eyes is by far the stupidest thing that DC has done. Hopefully he dies in the next Crisis series. BTW isn't the actual Superman from Earth 2?

first the Hollywood feel good movie industry ruins comic book story lines, now the comic book writers themselves. I understand updating the "brand" to be more appealing to todays culture, however lets not lose sight of what made this story great in the first place, Superman being a nerdy stand up guy who people can relate to, leave the dark and broodiness to Batman or Dark Knight whichever "re-brand name you prefer.I guess my real question is "What does Kevin Smith think about this , should there be a giant metal spider in the story ?...Kevin ?......

I'm sure that Superman's new look will be embraced and accepted and loved by the public, just the same way that "New Taste Coke" was accepted and loved by everyone in the 1980's. Oh wait, that sucked too... ok, never mind.

I for one glad this is a refreshing storytelling of the 1st comic book hero...and besides, this is a new Earth. It is not Earth Prime or Earth-1. Just another great Superman story from DC, unlike Marvel's crap. Just saying.

Unbelieveable the darkside had cart blanch with bad guys why must you turn Superman into a bad brooding dude he's not. Give him red cryptonite then make him that way for awhile but not forever. Superman is as A marican as apple pie and baseball you S.O.B.'s

It seems your a hypocrite since you used a singular pronoun before a plural noun. Then you used slang terms as well to form the sentence. "You Fanboys " makes you sound like a moron when your writing a sentence about proper grammar.

I am so sick of this. Let's see, Bane breaks Batman's back, Doom kills Superman, Captain America gets killed by a sniper and now this. Every few years a crop of unimaginative and desperate writers come along and basically rewrite decades of accepted canon because they can't figure out a story.

I'm tired of Superman being a weakling. I want the old Superman who can juggle planetoid, sleep in the heart of the Sun, drop kick a Neutron star, travel faster than the speed of light., see across galaxies with his vision, hear the very cells of your body splitting, the guy that can lift entire mountains with just one finger, the dude that can stand still and feel nothing as the Hulk waste himself trying to punch him out, crumble mountains with his sonic voice, vaporize the entire planet with his heat vision. Yeah thats the Supes we need to return.

You can't tell squat from one picture. The new look might work for a while but he and Wonder Woman will both eventually go back to the old looks but I will say I hate alternative universes. Marvel had done that to death and I'm sick of it.

i saw the last update of wonder woman, and at first along with most everyone else i really didn't like that "new" look-then I happened across the new series that the look was part of and the story was quite the opposite,they had turned WW into a super badass-I mean beating the crap out of everyone,blood and all..so seeing this new look-I' would suppose that Supes will be a lil more of a badass than the all-american superhero...I do agree though that the WB/DC are trying to update the characters to the current timeline then have them constantly stuck in the '90s..

If DC's Earth-1 is anything like Marvel's Ultimate Universe, then it'll start off good...then become great...then go bad...then turn into garbage...then turn good again but never as good as when it started off.

This is just another attempt to destroy AMERICAN ICONs. First GI JOE, Wonder Woman, now Superman. What's next, redo of Charlie Brown, make him and the Peanut's Gang into "Jersey Shores" losers. If they want to do redo, why not come out with a "graphic novel" in which POTUS actaully has leadership and ethics and represents America.

A more contemporary/reboot is long overdue.Lets face it the Man of Steel running around in spandex and a cape although "classic" may not fit in a contemporary universe.Clearly this is an attempt to resolve that issue.Frank Miller did the same with Batman a few years ago which ultimately gave Chris Nolan and Warner Brothers a new direction to take the Dark Knight,which has garnered huge box office success.A more contemporary version of Superman may rekindle and heat up the box office and comic book sales.Maybe lightning will strike twice it's worth a try!

This is terrible! His face is all wrong! I don't want Superman being compared to that moron Robert Pattison. This is just a ploy to pull in those silly Twilight fans. And, why? Superman has nothing to do with vampires.
Batman's my favorite, anyway.

What is strange is that he has the face of a teen but the build of Mr. Universe. It's like taking Justin Beiber and adding 200 lbs of muscle but keeping the face the same. Oh well I guess that's what Taylor Lautner did.

I love superman he's my favorite in DC,
Buy it is true they have gone of the deepend with poor o'l sup's, there's far to many variations of him fad far to many. We got young- old- married & not- dimensions- mega super killer death villains he's done-been-seen it all & nothing but going silly & stupid. I love superman but it's getting hard to watch him get beatin the only way he truely can.

like everyone else said, or as any comic geek knows, this is the alternate version superman, much like the alternate version spiderman and x-men in marvel, and there is nothing wrong with making supes edgier, thats what makes comics great, as long as they dont change the basic canon of the character, alternate versions ad some color to the character that was seriously lacking.

Why do cerators/devlopers feel the need to make EVERYTHING emo. Who decided "emo" was cool anyway ? Have any of you seen these "emo" people ? Sissies all of them !!!!! First devil may cry, now superman, what's next ???? Hey guys let's emo-up the army and then we can enforce a national dress code that say's if your not emo your going to jail. Hey and while we're at it lets emo-up the american flag !!!!! I for one am sick of developers telling ME what's cool !!!!! REVOLT !!!!!

I like it, but it's not really noteworthy. We've seen Supermen from parallel universes sporting similar yet different looks. How is this different? They are always retelling his origin in the "Elseworld" stories. lol

Emo superboy. Gotta love when people try to revive a dead/dying superhero. While i'm happy someone has decided to make superman more relevant to todays culture, it is a weak attempt. I'm sure that this wont stop the movie makers from trying to make another re-reboot.

Maybe they can start off with the death of superman. Remember the black and white bags?

Well, they have to bring in new readers. This will just be a Superman for a new generation. Yes people will wine and cry about the "change", but most of them will still buy the comic. What do you expect them to do? Come up with brand new characters that will be as great as the old school characters?

Marvel Comics already did this, with Ultimate comics. Creating a Superman who today's young people can identify with is an okay idea, along as they leave the 'real' superman alone. This way, you can have a man of steel who carries and ipod, looks vapid and stupid, and complains about mundane things. Kids like that crap.

Like the new Wonder Woman, I would like this if it was a completely new character instead of some "edgy" redo.
The Big Red S is not some wussy brooding emo.
It makes me feel like they're trying to get the "Twi-hards" into Superman.
By the way, I'm a girl and I hate Twilight!

I don't think Superman or any other super hero/villian needs in particular needs a reboot, the whole superhero/supervillian concept needs a reboot.. Come on, the skin-tight costumes that exsensuates (sorry if that is misspelled) every conture of their bodies is pretty ridiculous, especially in this day and age. Capes too for that matter, they do not aid in flying, and only seem to increase the possibility of tripping over it or getting it caught in something. I like Marvel/Image comics better than DC, because they tend not to do the whole 'alter-ego' concept (except Peter Parker/SpiderMan I guess), which is another concept that's been played out and gone stale. Come on, after all this time, NO ONE has caught on that Superman is Clark Kent (or vise versa)? People are not that stupid/naive. The X-Men are the X-Men, Wolverine is not "Logan: The Mild-mannered accountant" that when evil leers it's ugly head, runs into a closet, rips off his khakis, button-down shirt, and oxfords to dawn a super-gay costume of fierce color. Upgrade very much needed.

Superman was actually the first super-hero, so this is what started it all. And if you think about it, the alter-ego of Clark Kent is actually the opposite of every other alter-ego of any superhero. Superman wears the clothes he was sent to Earth in, the blanket he was wrapped in, when Krypton was destroyed. Superman is not his alter-ego, he is Superman, those are his clothes, that is him. Clark Kent is the alter-ego, it's how he disguises himself, it's how he views the human race.

So the whole cape/costume/alter-ego argument is a poor one. Or you just can't appreciate a good backstory. Read some Alex Ross Superman, and even Batman. I never was a fan of either until I saw and read Alex Ross' take. He really has the ability to make Superman seem like God.

So let me get this straight, 10 seasons of Smallville's "will he won't he" redux story line is now going to be replaced by a sensitive "emo" version of Superman? Perhaps when he is fighting crime they can't print the lyrics of the songs he has written in the comic panels.

Why must things such as this go through these trending changes when in the end, they always come back to the tried and true formula. It might very well, sell well to this 'Twilight' infused generation but, the older fans are going to struggle.

Is Superman gay? He's never been in a marriage that didn't turn out to be a sham. His buddies, Batman, Green Arrow, Flash, etc. are all unmarried. He looks just a little too handsome and prim. Don't know, just saying?

Another classic example of the modern news process – one source makes a mistake and the rest quote it as fact. But heck, if it brings more eyes to the book, well, where's the harm, huh?

As others have explained, this story isn't a retelling of Superman as much as it is a parallel version. A new version of the character with the story moved up to a more recent start, and in a more contemporary setting. Imagine if they kept making Harrison Ford Jack Ryan films, but at the same time did Ben Affleck films, playing the same character but as a younger man, at the beginning of his career.

Key word – Earth One. The Superman we currently know and love is from Earth Two. Completely different world, completely different dynamic. And Superman doesn't need a reboot, he just needs Tom Welling.

Wow, you're wrong. Very very wrong. Earth-One was our Superman (until Final Crisis). Earth-Two was the Golden Age (Kal-L) Superman who Comic Book Died during Infinite Crisis. I believe the "current" Superman is Earth-Zero. DC really sucks at the concept of continuity with it's different dimensions, retcons, re-boots, and re-hashes.

I do think this "design" is going for the Twilight-fangirl demographic. Devil May Cry fell prey to it, too.

Superman was rebooted by John Byrne about 25 years ago. Personally, just by the pic alone, I am not for it. I do not see Superman as the brooding hero in the comic line. That's Batman's role. Superman is supposed to be the paragon which is why the two characters work well together.

Well he looks a little peeved because someone caught him buttoning up his shirt! To me it seems that the "super suit" is the same underneath the hoodie and the shirt. OH!!! I say he has more of a TOM WELLING LOOK than anything from the sparkly vampire flicks.

Eh... This Graphic Novel is a take on how Superman would behave if he was introduced in this world TODAY. A lot more fear, a lot more paranoia etc. In addition, this is an "alternate" universe so to speak. So we still have a man of steel who we know and love.

Rebooting Superman is perfectly fine. BUT....he HAS to be the Boy Scout. That's the point of his character. He is meant to be the idealistic representation of Humanity, personified in the irony that he is NOT human! He, Wonder Woman, and Batman form the trifecta with the DCU. And changing their core, thoroughly ruptures the fabric of that universe's fabric.

No, that's not true, you have it wrong. Go check out the DC fan site and it gives more detail on this superman. It's not a exact parallel universe, but most elements are common to the original superman.

Still don't care for it. Enough with the violence and madness. I don't care what world he's from. Is earth 1 earth prime? The Superboy from Earth prime was very mad for a good reason. Don't let this be like that.

"...FROM A DIFFERENT EARTH THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE YOU READ IN COMICS"

Wait, you mean it's not from a *different earth* that's the *same*? I'm confused, how can something that is different, actually be different? Maybe it's so different that it's the same as something else that is an exact copy of that which it is trying to differ from?

In short, this is DC and Marvel's various "alternate dimensions" plots coming back to bite them in the butt. There's all of these alternate dimensions and confusing subplots that nobody will understand that this isn't "their" Superman, but one from a different dimension. Allow me to play the world's smallest violin.